York Chang and Miljohn Ruperto: Unnamable Aftermaths: Asian American art as Theory for Democracy, Part 1

“Unnamable Aftermaths: Asian American art as Theory for Democracy” is a mini-symposium
on contemporary Asian American Art in two acts. Inspired by Susette Min’s groundbreaking
book, Unnamable: The ends of Asian American Art, which challenged the conceptualization of the category as a site of reconciliation for historically marginalized artists to enter the canon in favor of a re-conception of the term as a discursive platform that sets up the conditions for a politics to come. For Part 1 of Unnamable Aftermaths, artists Miljohn Ruperto and York Chang, two artists who engage in deconstructive art practices that open up knowledge and representations of the social and historical toward possibilities of seeing and thinking otherwise, will discuss their conceptually-oriented art practice in the dense atmosphere of the current cultural/political landscape.

York Chang is an artist and a lawyer whose art projects in multiple media reflect on infrastructures of power, the possibilities of solidarity, and the ethos of democracy. He received a Guggenheim fellowship in 2025.

Miljohn Ruperto’s speculative art and film practices reframe the philosophical and representational underpinnings of colonial domination. His exhibition, Animal, Vegetalbe, nor Mineral, opens at the Cantor Art Center at Stanford University in March.

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